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Krueger quotes, “that the highest ideal of progressive Christianity can be nothing other than fixing present, temporal problems.”
Yes or no? Why? p.52
Do you feel that the Church is too focused and preoccupied on the afterlife and how “fortunes are spent saving people from the imaginary dangers of imaginary places?”
p.52
Do you agree with Gulley when he says, “If the Church were Christian, we would do what Jesus did-equip one another to live better in this world and stop fretting about the next one?”
Why or why not? p.52
Gulley believes there is no Hell.
“I decided not to invest any effort in saving people’s souls from a hell I didn’t believe in.” p.53 If there is no hell, no sin, and no judgment what does/would this belief lead one to?
Read Matthew 10.
What was Jesus concerned about?
Read Luke 16:19-31.
What is this a picture of?
What happened to facilitate this?
Is Hell real?
What do you believe about Hell?
What is the reality and Biblical truth about Hell?
Check handout.
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